News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Agrees to Consent Decree in Connection with $250,000 Settlement.
By John Sammon | Aug 20, 2021
Deb Haaland, America’s first Native American U.S. Secretary of the Interior, journeyed to Taholah, a coastal Quinault Indian reservation community in Grays Harbor County, Washington, to discuss the impacts of climate change including rising oceans and erosion.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: State and Federal Partners in California and Arizona Ask Public to Help Detect and Prevent Spread of Fungus Deadly to Bats.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Dale Henson, 53, and his wife Zoila Henson, 53, both of Chandler, Arizona, were arrested on Wednesday for fraudulently billing the Arizona Healthcare Cost Containment System and for fraud involving receipt of COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan funds. The couple was charged earlier this month by the federal grand jury in a 58-count indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Hagatña, Guam - SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Sharee Diaz Joyner, age 44, from San Vicente, Saipan, was sentenced in the United States District Court of the Northern Mariana Islands to thirty months imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Gulfport man was sentenced to “time served" (72 days) in prison, and one-year of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Kurt Thielhorn, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: A man who escaped from custody in the Gerald R. Hinzman Center was sentenced on Aug. 19, 2021, to two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally possessing the firearm he used when he was shot in a rolling gun battle.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla -- FEMA has approved an additional $5,388,333 for the state of Florida to reimburse Bay District Schools for Hurricane Michael-related recovery expenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla -- FEMA has approved an additional $6,971,729 to the state of Florida to reimburse PowerSouth Energy Cooperative for Hurricane Michael-related recovery expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, DANIEL DEWAYNE COWNS, 46, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced to serve more than 21 years in federal prison for his involvement in fentanyl distribution and his possession of seven firearms-including several assault weapons-following multiple felony convictions, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Gavin Collins, of Newell, West Virginia, was sentenced to 300 months of incarceration this week for a child pornography charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Derek R. Schwartz, age 52, of Coppell, Texas, was indicted yesterday and accused of conspiring with ValueWise CEO Michael T. Mann to defraud companies that loaned millions of dollars to ValueWise subsidiaries.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: While I make it a point to communicate to the workforce in my role as CISA Director, I write this message as a Veteran, and the wife of a Veteran, both of us having served in multiple locations around the world, including Afghanistan.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Effective immediately, Shenandoah National Park’s streams and rivers are closed to fishing due to low stream flows and high water temperatures. Despite the recent rainfall, streams and groundwater conditions have not recovered sufficiently.
By Andy Nghiem | Aug 20, 2021
The Bureau of Reclamation released the 2022 operating conditions for Lake Powell and Lake Mead Aug. 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, that LLOYD WASHINGTON, age 26, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana was sentenced on Aug. 19, 2021 to 120 months in the Bureau of Prisons after pleading guilty to a three-count Indictment. In Count 1, WASHINGTON...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Micah Hines, a/k/a “Water," age 42, pled guilty today to distributing more than 28 grams of cocaine base, and also admitted to distributing fentanyl, in January 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: POCATELLO - Matthew Gary Leander III, 39, of Idaho Falls, entered a guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. Leander was indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 27, 2019. Sentencing is set for November 9, 2021, before Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye at the federal courthouse in Pocatello.
